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Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 127–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
... achievement award) in the name of other creative directors not yet in the spotlight. In 2018, Varda joined with the 50/50 en 2020 collective, a gender equity campaign, on the Cannes red carpet to call for gender parity and greater transparency in the festival's process of selecting films to screen...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of women’s cinema at present, visible in the rise of the Berlin School, the development of women-oriented production collectives, and the resurgence of feminist organizing on behalf of gender parity in the contemporary German film industry. feminist film theory German women’s movement neo-liberalism...
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Representation Matters: Tatjana Turanskyj on Women’s Filmmaking and the Pro Quote Film Movement
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner In this conversation, which took place in Berlin, Germany, in August 2017, filmmaker Tatjana Turankskyj discusses recent developments in Pro Quote Film, the feminist initiative she cofounded with several other women filmmakers to promote gender parity in German film...
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Women’s Interventions in the Contemporary German Film Industry
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 147–155.
Published: 01 December 2018
... film authorship, namely: feminist structures (WIFTG), demands for a quota system (PQF), and a grassroots feminist mentoring collective of film school graduates (ITW). gender parity German film industry quota system film collectives Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen Copyright © 2018 Camera...
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Members of the 2018 Cannes jury—Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Chang Chen...
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Published: 01 May 2021
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 159–169.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., has come under criticism; recent ini- tiatives to foster gender parity led to the 50/50 by 2020 pledge at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While major festivals are finally responding to the demand to program films by women, a vital need for the supportive community fostered by smaller, more...
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Carol Flinn
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 151–154.
Published: 01 December 1989
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Technologies of Gender (1987), theories of female spectatorship, like
work on female subjectivity, need to heed the variety and differences
that exist among women, to recognize that there is no universal “fe-
male.”
I was surprised by the third question-has the notion...
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Susan Jeffords's The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989)
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 166–173.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Susan Jeffords’s The Remasculinization of
America: Gender and the Vietnam War
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989)
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the French monument the Pantheon, where so few women have been honored, Varda also opens questions of national reflection on gender and historical commemoration. Varda was not only a brilliant creator but also a shrewd businesswoman who made most of her work outside the mainstream film industry...
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica 's Biracial Reproductive Futurity
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., predictable genre by
undermining the standard structures of episodic narration and
tying its plot to contemporary controversies and politics.1 Tapping
into a number of broad social changes, the program admirably
portrayed a version of gender parity, included a multiracial cast,
depicted love and sex...
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Pressure Points: Political Psychology, Screen Adaptation, and the Management of Racism in the Case-History Genre
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 71–113.
Published: 01 December 2001
... was
to align the “cure” for political problems with normative gender
and sexual behavior. Pressure Point’s narrative dramatizes this
effort to cure, but it also reveals the ideological tensions embed-
ded in such a project. In the process of converting Lindner’s...
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Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 50–69.
Published: 01 September 1999
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struction of national and cultural citizenship, as well as to examine
the gender, race, and class dimensions of the national narratives pro•
duced by a contemporary Hollywood film explicitly addressed to an
audience of adolescent and pre-adolescent US girls. The impetus for
my inquiry into Clueless...
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Kate and Allie: “New Women” and the Audience's Television Archive
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 154–168.
Published: 01 January 1988
... featured (and continue to print) articles about the new•
woman sit-corns. In February of 1985 TV Guide gave its "cheers" to the
"upgrading of women in prime time this season" because the National
Commission on Working Women found that female characters were ap•
proaching numerical parity with males...
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By Any Other Name: Sweet Justice , Cicely Tyson, and Contemporary Visual Politics
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 49–65.
Published: 01 September 1995
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sentations such as the ones I’ve described function as a vehicle for the
50 ideological legitimation of views of race, class, and gender in social
and cultural life, and to quote George Lipsitz, are “charged with some
responsibility for making new social relations credible and legitimate...
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Disregarding Romance and Refashioning Femininity: Getting Down and Dirty with the Designing Women
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
Published: 01 September 1993
... to women’s daily lives and
ways of being, and often it provides a way to critique race and gender
stereotypes, an argument to which I will return. This connection is
more important than the actual bits of pop culture which populate the
series. Charlene, as a character...
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Mother Talk: Maternal Masquerade and the Problem of the Single Girl
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 70–95.
Published: 01 September 1999
... in this new frontier,
particularly since the flexible parameters of screen identity provide an
anonymity that offers room for gender play. Feminist critics, however,
observe that real-life women in such cyberspace forums as Usenet
groups, email lists, Internet Relay Chat lines (IRC), and multi-user...
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No Way out of the Menaced Society: Loyalty within the Boundedness of Race
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
... economic authority and his more permanent
social parity. Is this discrepancy a rationale for his brooding or his
anger? More importantly, however, G is presented as a post-industrial
o.g., an original gangsta forced to spend more time engaged in leisure-
making than profit-making activities because his...
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Recovering the Lone Mother: Howards End As Aesthetic Anodyne
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2004
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to the moral panic around lone motherhood.8 By considering the
gender politics as they are rendered through the mollifying nos-
talgic gloss of the heritage film, we can see that what appears to be
a utopian construction of Howards End actually functions as what
Michel Foucault calls a “heterotopia...
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“Happy Ends” to Crises of Heterosexual Desire: Toward a Social Psychology of Recent German Comedies
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the structure of the
narrative. The characters seem to experience the same pressures
as the films themselves.
Thus, fifth, these films, primarily relationship comedies,
share anxieties about sex and gender that set them apart from
most earlier...
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Lasers for Ladies: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 57–90.
Published: 01 May 1992
... inscription of the female body and a critical feminist
voicing of women’s agency. Precisely because of its gendered character
and public invisibility, endometriosis illuminates the coexistence of an
up-to-date endoscopic panopticon (laparoscopy, laser laparoscopy,
video laparoscopy ) with an old...
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